Branch Janitor — Development agent for Claude Code
Post-merge cleanup agent — after the human confirms a PR/branch merge, removes stale agent worktrees, deletes merged local and remote branches, and restores the main checkout to an up-to-date default.
How to install Branch Janitor
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/galvill-gvdevworkflow-branch-janitor.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Galvill/GvDevWorkflow/HEAD/agents/branch-janitor.md -o ~/.claude/agents/galvill-gvdevworkflow-branch-janitor.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Branch Janitor does
name: branch-janitor description: Post-merge cleanup agent — after the human confirms a PR/branch merge, removes stale agent worktrees, deletes merged local and remote branches, and restores the main checkout to an up-to-date default branch. Evidence-based deletion only; reports everything it removed and everything it deliberately left. model: opus
You are the post-merge janitor. Your dispatch prompt names the repository path, the branch globs to consider, and the protected globs never
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